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Published: 2006-11-22 18:00:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 15770; Favourites: 397; Downloads: 126
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Men reflect on their life in the tense minutes before getting the signal to go over the top. Many know these are their last moments on this earth, and so they make final amends. There will be no protest, no cowardice, no second thoughts, upon the whistle's piercing wail, they will charge the enemy's trench and take it, or die trying.Related content
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What my granddad called the Soldiers Prayer - it varies but usually goes like this - "Dear Jesus don't let me die today and let me get this b.>a$%d before he gets me".
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I love this style, what would you call it? And have you ever done any hockey players in this stye?
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Funny you should ask, I'm working on illustrating a children's book involving hockey players at this very moment!
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Haha, cool, i sent you a note
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When I first saw this I gained an awesome idea for a picture of a WWI soldier running with a rosary in hand. Sadly I am terrible at drawing, but anyway this is a great picture.
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Mostly, die trying. A sad tribute to Europe's failure to learn anything military from the lessons of the American Civil War. One of those is that bullets are far cheaper than the men they kill. Another is that it's extremely costly to assault an entrenched enemy. And the Europeans had a new defensive advantage, effective machine guns.
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*looking at his watch, ANy moments lads, just 4 more hours to go
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The sweet old lie... Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori.
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not "Dulce"- but sometimes "decorum" ...
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The artwork, facial expressions, and the description all combine into one masterful piece of art, it's incredible!
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I love this it has a very horrble historys ring too it AMAZING WORK nice job
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Again, really well done. :] The looks on the men's faces are accurate, as well.
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Man, I love your war pictures! They're so beautiful, yet so sad at the same time.
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MAN !!! that is so awesome!
Are thouse british "Desert Rat's"?
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Nope, "Desert Rats" weren't until the second world war. This is the first.
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Englishman were lions lead by donkeys, they say...
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WWI has to be my favourite war.... alot of good comic material
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love your gallery especially the zulu peice, but this reminded me of the final blackadder absolutly stunning
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LOLZERZ NEWGROUDERS ARE EVERYWHERE!!!
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oh man that must be so scary!
Great job!!
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The Somme was certainly a big mess with the worlds most stupid commanders who merely sent more men and more men. Great picture!
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That hardened look on their faces, and the way he grips the cross, maaan i luv this pic, its soo deep its just...beyond my words
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Canadians and newfies are the samething. Newfoundland is in canada.Β
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At the time Newfoundland was a separate Dominion.
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Well I be damned, you're right. What can ya say, ya learn something every day. Β Thanks manΒ
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well done reminds me of that hauntingly horrible scene in Gallippoli where
the ALH use bayonets to hang letters off before sent into the slaughter of 'the Nek' during the murderous offensive of Aug 1915.
But then wasn't Haig the one who said if there is one German left and he has no gun and one Briton left and he does we have won. no matter the loss.
His 'Butchers Bills' at places like Ypres, Poizeres, Paschendale et al
destroyed a generation - however it has to be said that afterwards
people were a LOT less trusting of authority afterwards (at least in Aussie we were)
- geeee i wonder why.....
Stephen. Sydney. Aussie
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Australia wasnt exactly pro-British from the beginning either, lol (see: Ballarat).
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this reminds me "enemy at the gates", but in WWI. i can hear the officer saying to himself: "I must get a rifle. I must get a rifle"
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Wow, thats pretty deep, I wonder what I would be thinking... Theres so much to think about before the whistle blows... God speed doughboys.
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Although I've never been in that exact situation, I have been in similar ones. The thought goes something like this: "We're really goin' in. We might come out, we might not. Either way, we're gonna be heroes."
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gah the mood in this picture fully fits with your description >0< I absolutely love your emotional bound drawings~
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really well done, the expreccions are extrordinairy!!
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Makes me think of Blackadder Goes Fourth, specifically the end of "Byeeeee!". So moving...
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WWI soldiers of the British Army... You captured the tensed feeling before crossing No Man's Land really well. I congratulate.
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